Roundtable: Cable Access and Free Speech, Patriot Act NPR's Ed Gordon is joined by George Curry, editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service; Callie Crossley, a Boston-based cultural commentator who appears weekly on the television show Beat the Press; and Haki R. Madhubuti, publisher and Distinguished University Professor at Chicago State University. They discuss a local TV show in Vermont that celebrates Nazis and shows beheadings in Iraq, a conservative coalition that wants to scale back the Patriot Act, and NCAA basketball players that don't graduate.

Roundtable: Cable Access and Free Speech, Patriot Act

Roundtable: Cable Access and Free Speech, Patriot Act

Audio will be available later today.

NPR's Ed Gordon is joined by George Curry, editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service; Callie Crossley, a Boston-based cultural commentator who appears weekly on the television show Beat the Press; and Haki R. Madhubuti, publisher and Distinguished University Professor at Chicago State University. They discuss a local TV show in Vermont that celebrates Nazis and shows beheadings in Iraq, a conservative coalition that wants to scale back the Patriot Act, and NCAA basketball players that don't graduate.